There's no excuse for the lack of female users on VGChartz. There are more and more female gamers each year , I know just from going to PAX. Three years ago girls were about 5% of the people at PAX, last year up to about 10% this year about 17-20%. Fact is game companies are noticing the trend and are capitalizing on the market.

So why aren't their girls on VGChartz and other gaming forums? Because all the nerds and members of such forums are so desperate to talk to a girl that they over whelm the few girls who come on. Then the guy users not only on VGChartz but other forum's make lewd comments about how girls are sexy or bitches etc...etc...

I can't talk personal experience because I'm a guy. But I know girls who won't even play X-Box Live anymore because every time they go on they get dozens of friend requests and get hit on constantly if they use their headsets. Now most girls I know have names on Live that you can't tell if their female and they don't chat with headsets outside of private convo's because they don't want guys knowing they are girls.

Even some of the famous girls of VGChartz like vgchartzgirl have been driven away. In fact just look at how many friends she has on her list compared to me for example? She has over 4,000 I have less then a hundred. Its that kind of stuff that I'm guessing keeps girls away.

Honestly its like a meat market when ever a girl posts. Guys go nutz, its sort of sad because we should be gentleman and chivalrous not degenerate scum bags. I'm sure if guys stopped hitting on every girl who joins VGChartz, if the lewd comments stopped and girls were treated like every other gamer. Then I'm sure we'd have a ton more.

In fact I'm guessing alot of girls follow these forums and don't post because while their interested in the topics and convo's they probably don't want to deal with all the hitting on and harrasment.

Of course I'm not a girl, but that's why most of my female friends don't go on gaming forums or XboxLive. Its not a problem just here on VGChartz its the male gaming community in general!

Are we thnking of the same VGChartzgirl?  The VGChartz girl I remember hacked the site on a few occasions and sent a friend request to every single active member on the site at the time.  Then she bragged about how easy it was!

And look at members like Lolita (our longest female member, I think), Onna76, Nintendofangirl, slick trick (G0d, she was hot!), and trashleg.  I don't know about other sites but I don't think that any of us treated them weird.  I mean, it's not like any of us will ever meet any of them in person.  They live in other cities--often times, entirely different countries!  My penis just can't reach that far!  It was the girls (who were sometimes, guys) like P_Chan, Gballzack, Girl Gamer Elite, and a couple of others.  The latter few seemed to really enjoy talking about nothing but sex (GGE even PM'd me some Kitty-Porn---featuring cat girls!).  They got a lot of attention as a result and they gave girl members a bad name.

But like I said in an earlier post, all a female gamer has to do to be respected on this site is post in the topics that interest them and have some idea what they're talking about.  This is a gaming/social site.  It's not Love Connection.  It's not that serious.

(1). she was the one that added everyone to her friend list.

(2). nobody drove her away, she never posted much to begin with.

(3). what makes you so sure she is actually a "she"?

(4). have you actually seen any male memebrs "harassing" female memebers?  most of members on this site are over 20 years old, I don't think they're so pathetic as to hit on someone on the internet just because they claim they're female.

there just aren't that many females into video games, let along taking it seriously enough to visit a forum. the thing I see that can turn female away is becasue we're all so used to the fact that this is a male only club, we get too comfortable with ourselves and make posts that may be insensitive to females, do any of us actually think twice before we say "where r da boobz?"

I remember them too.....I don't think they're even girls, just some creepy ass dudes trying to be creepy.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=142833

Just took a look at our female members via a search. God, we had some cool female members in the past.
-banished4eva (aka Nintendo Fan Girl)
-McPancak3s
-carmina2008
-vgchartzgirl (she wanted attention but she wasn't boring!)
-P_Chan (yeah, she was Wessle Woggle (aka a man) but I lol'd so many times at his/her posts)
-Nintendo Fan Girl (aka Tino Vainalfajfg;asglkagj;)
-Mrs. Nordlead (where the hell is Mr. Nordlead, these days? Anybody know?)
-Video Girl
-Moongoddess (she was sooooo cool!)
-Brianna (the hottest girl on this site, bar none)
-Ferret1094 (still my friend on the Wii--despite the fact that I haven't played with her in ages)
-Incandescence
-slicktrick ("That was a slick trick!"-slicktrick quote)
-Girl Gamer Elite (may have been Gballzack but she sure was fun!)
-GBallzack (those who were here at the time know it was a hell of a ride. She may have been a man, though.)
-Onna76 (still on my Wii friends list)

Now I've depressed myself. These "girls" left their mark on this site, though. Wherever you guys are, this one's for you!

*pours liquor on the sidewalk*

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So...how many girls/females have posted in this thread so far?lol.

I don't believe it.  You managed to answer every single question wrong.

j/k. I definitely didn't get the answers I expected, though.  Guess it just goes to show that you can't judge a book by its cover and some other cliche stuff.  Thanks for the response!

i don't agree with anything joecool says up there,we are obviously looking at different sites,of course lots of women like playing games i was under the impression almost 50% of certain mmoers were women but who knows and surely the sims is the biggest player in female gaming

its a bit like football (soccer to you) plenty of women over here go to games and enjoy it but it certainly doesn't mean they are looking at club websites,blogs,injuries and fixture lists in the main,they just aren't built like that

the younger lot don't know how lucky you are when i hear about the girl gamers of recent times i think you have portables to thank for this,they weren't interested in sitting around and watching my gen play a platformer or elite on the bbc/spectrum and why would they!

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